Last year, the EU Commission has issued charges against Google's parent company Alphabet stating that "Google has abused its dominant position by systematically favouring its comparison shopping service in its search result pages."

There has been ongoing speculation around the payout Brussells will ultimately sting Google with, but fresh reports from the WSJ allege that this particular fee could reach as much as 10% of the tech behemoth's annual revenue, which was more than $90bn in 2016.

The European Commission has not released an official statement on the timing of a formal announcement, while Google has yet to publicly comment on the latest reports.

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